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Tell Somebody August 9, 2011 - A report on jobs and the Kansas City Plant
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Maximizing Job Creation - An Analysis of Alternatives for the Transformation of the Kansas City Plant
Sixty-six years ago today, August 9, 1945, a US nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, killing around 70,000 people, just three days after the bombing of Hiroshima.
In 1943, what is now known as the Kansas City Plant was built to assemble engines for Navy fighter planes. In 1949, the Kansas City Plant came under the control of the (then) Atomic Energy Commission and the plant's mission changed to the manufacture and procurement of nonfissionable components for nuclear weapons.
Today a new nuclear weapons parts facility, owned by an agency of Kansas City, Missouri, and supported by Kansas City tax incentives and bonds, is being built to replace the Kansas City Plant. There has been very little public debate about this boondoggle, but on the occasions when city officials do talk about it, the emphasis is on keeping jobs in Kansas City.
Kansas City Peace Planters commissioned a report to look at the jobs issue related to production of nuclear weapons parts in comparision to alternative uses of such a facility, and on the August 9, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody, we hear about it from co-author Dr. Lloyd Jeff Dumas Professor of Political Economy, Economics, and Public Policy in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences (previously, Social Sciences) at the UT-Dallas.
The August 9, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody featuring Dr. Lloyd Jeff Dumas on is available for download. Click ***HERE**
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